At any age being able to say this is great. It summarizes many of my thoughts…. Power of Money…by Adam Khoo (Singapore’s youngest millionaire at 26 yrs.) Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and […]
There are many people I know who are contemplating retirement 5-15 years before they HAVE to retire. When I ask them WHY do they want to retire, these are the normal answers that I get: 1. Have enough money. However there are a few people who say they have ‘enough’. Then I calculate how much […]
Indian elite (with whom I deal) is an amazing lot. I frankly do not know about people in other countries, so let me speak for Indians alone. We like to complain about – poor service of trains, poor roads, corruption, high taxation, poor policing, poor state machinery, pathetic infrastrucutre in general, fall in the education […]
this post was done on Vijayadasmi day..it is worth repeating..will also play it on Vijayadasmi day…for those who missed 🙂 No this story is not about Durga..it is about a friend named Sandeep. Sandeep was a classmate in Fatima High School at Kirol, Vidyavihar, Ghatkopar, Mumbai. When I was in class 6, Sandeep was in […]
THERE are two relevant quotes that I came across: George Bernard Shaw once said, “Whenever I go to my tailor, he measures me up”. John Maynard Keynes, the economist, once quipped when he was accused of inconsistency: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” Risk management is all about […]
Once in a while at least we should look to helping others. Like in an old Hindi movie Amar Prem Rajesh Khanna tells the villian “Even animals look up while eating, as if thanking God for the food that it has got”. As human beings let us do our bit. There is an organisation (UK […]
In an earlier post I had spoken about 3 people’s attitude about money. Today it is another set of people. I met a 82 year old lady – very active, agile, smart and with a fantastic memory. She had taken up a job when she was 18 years old for a princely salary of Rs. […]